OBITUARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19406, 14 August 1926, Page 10

OBITUARY.

MR. GEORGE AKERS. Mr. George Akers, a very early resident of Auckland, died in his ninotieth year, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. M. Jones, Lower Hutt, on Thursday. He was the oldest member of an Oddfellows' Lodge of the Auckland district, having been initiated in the Good Intent Lodge on October 10, 1859. He was'born in England on January 24, 1837, and camii out to Auckland at an early age. At one time he owned and conducted the Oxford Hotel, Victoria Street, and was also an early contractor in the Auckland district, having formed some of the old. military roads during the Maori War. Mr, Akers was district grand master of thu Manchester Unity in 1886. More recently he had made hin homo in Wellington, where he had been living with 9 married daughter.

MRS. HENRY EMSON. One of Auckland's pioneers, Mrs. Heiiry Emsojn, aged 89, died at her residence in Albert Road, Devonport, last Wednes« day. Accompanied by her husband Mrs. Emson landed in Auckland in 1861 and, with the exception of 13 years occupied in farming at Whangarei Heads, has resided he: ; *e over since. She was living in Auckland during the second Maori War, when Mr. Emson, as a member of the militia, did defence duty at the Otahuhu' blockhouses. Mrs. Emson remembered the days when Queen Street was merely .a broad walk in a gully, and when tea-tree covered the route new taken by Karangahape R<!ad. The surviving members of a family of nine are Mr. A. W. Emson, of Whangarei; Mr. S. Emson, of Manaiaj Mrs. H. L. Jones, of Devonport; Mrs. L. Hill, of Eltham; Mrs. J. Scott, of Takapuna; Mrs. F. Harris, of Huntly; and Miss Emson.

MR. GEORGE HERCUS. •' . « '• .jvj- Jul . • -VC [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION] ;l

DUNEDIN. Friday.. Mr. George Hercus, aged 82, a director of Ross and Glendining, Ltd., died suddenly of cerebral hemorrhage last night. \

MR. JOHN MILL.

j:by telegraph.—press association.) DUNEDIN. Friday.

The death is announced of Mr. John Mill, agsd 83, head of the Dunedin coal stevedora firm, who arrived in New Zealand in 1862. He was pilot before establishing the stevedore business, which mow has branches at Oamaru, Bluff and Timara.